Monday, May 10, 2010

THE LASCAR-- THE ORIGINAL INDIAN MERCHANT NAVY SAILOR -- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

Today Indian sailors are everywhere on Oil tankers, Chemical tankers and other ships. -- valued and in great demand for their mental acuity and seafaring skills.

He was just a Lascar -- A brazen form slavery re-invented by the white man.

Indian seamen unions like Maritime Union of Indian ( MUI ), NUSI etc should keep a picture of a white man Mr.Joseph Salter in their offices-- lest we are branded an ungrateful race.

I myself ( the evolved lascar ) have commanded British flag ships with British and European officers.

4 centuries ago, the Lascar was a derogatory term for the “ wretched Khalasi sailor of mongrel descent ” or “ The Indian coolie “ .

The white man hardly knew that this coolie belongs to the world's first civilization. The Vedic civilisation flourished on the banks of river Saraswati from 9000 BC to 4000 BC . The river dried up in 4000 BC due to tectonic shifts blocking the glacial mouth in the Himalayas. The white man came out from under the Quaternary ice age only in 9500 BC, doing grunt grunt, staying in dark caves , wearing barks, eating raw meat. At this time the predecessors of the Indian Lascar were writing poetry, wearing woven clothes, eating from a cooked menu and living in proper stone houses.

Lascars were Indian sailors who worked on British and European ships for 400 years.

Lascars played a valuable role, helping to crew British ships in times of peace and war and ensuring that goods from India and beyond arrived safely in London and other British ports.

Lascars served on British ships under 'lascar' articles of agreement. These agreements allowed shipowners to pay a pittance of 5% of the white sailors wages for longer working hours , give less and poor quality food , and force them to stay in unventilated , cramped and dingy areas of ship unfit for humans .

The sailors could be transferred from one ship to another and retained in service for up to three years at one time. Indian lascars served as the deck crew; in the engine rooms below the decks as coal Stokers or Aagwallas .

Goan lascars being Christians catholics were allowed easier jobs of Stewards and cooks. They could handle pork and beef and were even more servile..

Digression:-- (This tradition has lived on in Goa, and as a result a obscene percentage of Goan christian population work as stewards and butlers on land too .

This has altered their DNA programming / blue print , determination and mindset -- and you will rarely see a Goan catholic with Portugese surname PASSING A IIT ENTRANCE EXAM .

That Goa got rid of slavery, and Portugese Rama Rajya in 1962, instead of 1947 like the rest of India is also a huge cause.)

Stoking, a terrible task which was deemed to be below the dignity of a white man. At the beginning of the voyage, the large pile of coal lay near the entry to the bunkers. But as the voyage continued, the coal was used up and its face receded, forcing trimmers deeper into the hot, unventilated, dust-filled bunkers.

Lascars were both recruited to serve on European ships and paid through a Ghat Serang, an Indian shore agent, with vested interests ( on the payroll of the shipowners ). The Jahaz Serang is the Bosun or nowadays.

The ship owners loved the lascars as they were docile unlike the unruly whites.

Their unions’ use of ‘coolie’ and ‘lascar’ also constituted discursive tactics of denial and exclusion. The Ghat Serangs applied strong arm tactics , including arrest ( assisted by the British and Portugese governments ) to recruit the Lascars.

In 1916/17 hundreds of Lascars elected to join the British labour corps in Mesopotamia rather than go to sea. This choice made sense. Mesopotamia paid better and was believed to be safer.

As trade expanded and India became increasingly central to Britain's global trade and economy, lascars became the mainstay of the labour force in British-registered ships bound for Europe. Yet lascars have not been granted the place they deserve in studies of British maritime history.

The British museum at London displays shows vandalised and stolen goods , but talks nothing of the Indentured Coolie and Lascars.

Because of the nature of the trade, and the imbalance of exports from Britain against imports from India, lascars were forced to remain in England for long periods of time before ships were ready to take them back leaving lascars destitute.

They were stranded in London by a series of laws called the Navigation Acts. These Acts meant that many Indian sailors arriving in London from India could not be re-employed on return journeys and were abandoned.

Impoverished , ill clad and shivering Lascars would be wandering the streets of various ports for survival in England ,Scotland, Wales and Ireland – peddling , begging in front of street art , sweeping streets , taking up low paid menial jobs etc. They would sleep on the streets or inside dockside sheds .

Some of them even took on white wives . They were in demand as they had no problems in getting that elusive hard on , without excessive nauseating foreplay and liquor , even in the cold-- and infidelity was not a concern.

Only in 1850 did the Admiralty had taken over responsibility for the welfare of distressed Lascars—after some visiting Indian princes, including Maharaj Dilip Singh gave hefty donations. .

Only a handful of Lascars are mentioned on the memorial at Tower Hill with the names of 26,833 seamen of the British Merchant Navy who died in the carnage of both world wars. Why not? They were animals , not human , right?

Joseph Salter a missionary in the Chapel Street district of London (now Edgware Road) helped the lascars from 1853 . It is on record that in sixteen years more than sixteen thousand Lascars visited the homes and over thirteen hundred were fed and clothed.

" The Strangers home" survived until 1935, when it was converted into flats and named West India House by Stepney Borough Council. For thirty-nine years Joseph Salter served the community of Lascars as helper and teacher .

All that remains however, is a street named after him in the east end of London.

This selfless man ,should have been honoured like Mother Theresa . He was not interested in photo shoots, and grabbing the limelight , and using his white skin for leverage , like the saint Theresa.

IT IS A SHAME THAT NONE OF THE INDIAN SAILOR ORGANISATIONS , LIKE MUI, NUSI ETC HAS EVEN A PICTURE OF THIS MAN IN THE SAILORS CLUBS , SHELTERS AND OFFICES.

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Here is an extract of a long poem about lascars , written by a certain Mary Robinson.

Far from my Native Indian shore,
I hear our wretched race deplore;
I mark the smile of taunting Scorn,
And curse the hour, when I was born !
I weep, but no one gently tries
To stop my tear, or check my sighs;
For, while my heart beats mournfully,
Dear Indian home, I sigh for Thee !
To drink the tear of deep despair;
The scoff and scorn of fools to bear !
And if I curse my fate severe,
Some Christian Savage mocks my tear !
Was it for this, the LASCAR brave
"Toil'd, like a wretched Indian Slave

The Lascar's pendulum swung to the other extreme, and in the 1970s' there was unwarranted militant trade unionism supporting lazy young sailors who will not work (unless given excessive overtime) , displayed gross lack of respect, decorum etc.

As a result most foreign companies do NOT want Indian crew on their ships --

-- they however love to employ Indian senior officers on tankers , where one mistake can wipe out the whole company.

Who invented the ship's compass?

When the pyramids were built 5000 years ago, NOBODY on this planet including the Egyptians has the technology to find the exact North East South West cardinal positions of Vaastu. Nobody on the planet had an idea what is sun's declination or Kepler’s precession via astronomy . The geographic and the magnetic poles are NOT the same. The North pole is 1600 miles away and the south pole is 2570 kilometers away.

The ancient Kerala sailors sailed to Socotra and Aquaba and Basra using a compass of magnetised fish blade floating on light oil floating on water. This is symbolised by Arjun shooting into the eye of the fish to win Draupadi in 4000 BC.

SUBJECT : Narendra Modi reaches Fiji, first visit by an Indian PM in 33 years .

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THE INDIANS IN FIJI MUST KNOW THEIR OWN S0RDID HISTORY .

Around 1834 the English speaking white man abolished slavery . He then reinvented slavery in the form of Indentured labour from India . It was a worse form of slavery . Attractive ,glowing , blushing , dark skinned young Indian women , now came into the equation .

All were duped into signing ( thumb printing ) extensive 5 year contracts with vague terms and conditions in English, which they could not understand . The British government in India and even the Christian missionaries did nothing to stop this blatant mass deception .

The survivors of the terrible 80 day sea voyage kala paani ordeal, sitting , sleeping and eating amidst their own waste, identified themselves with the ship they travelled and forged a sense of unity and strong bhai – b#hen bonds, with only their religion , culture and festivals for spiritual resilience and support .

As soon as the Indentured Indian landed ashore he would be marched to estates and housed in slave barracks without mattresses or pillows .

Life was dehumanizing, with no honour, little pay, poor diet, long toiling hours , insults , monetary fines and floggings with cattle whips at the slightest provocation . And with monetary fines for small offences, there was little money .

Never in the history of mankind has there been a saga of such greed and injustice-- where more than 1.3 million innocent humans ( 65000 in FIJI ) were duped whole sale , given a life sentence , dumped in far flung corners of the planet and forgotten for ever .

Was the "bhangi" caste created by the white invaders? There were no toilets in houses before the white invaders came to India and 60-70% of our population still enjoy the open air performance (It must be 99% open defecation in 15th century..

The white invaders must have built toilets without proper drains and created a new caste "Bhangi" to clean their toilets. Some rich native people with some social status might have followed the British style of building toilets in homes.

The mahars used to take care of animal carcasses in the towns. Dealing with human shit was primarily not their business.

The bhangis were even glorified with "Valmiki" "Balmiki" title in North India ... doesn't this add insult to injury?? How mean and diabolic these white invaders could be!

Would you kindly explain the ORIGIN of bhangi caste?

... Taslima Rushdie

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Capt. Ajit VadakayilDecember 14, 2014 at 10:51 AMhi tr,

it was the white invader who created the scavenger , untouchable caste.

I just came upon your blog while searching for any glimpse of my Indian heritage. My father who was born in Port Mourant, Guyana along with he thinks most of our relatives. All we know is that our relatives who came from India (date unknown..my grandmother was born in 1921 so her grandmother may have arrived to Guyana 1870's (?))

They worked at a sugar plantation called Plantation Port Mourant..they grew and processed sugar cane. My great grand father's name was Moti Lall the only sur names I know of our family Lall and Baksh can you help me with and hint of their possible origins in India.

Your forefathers were imported by John Gladstone for his sugar cane fields .

246,000 of them in more than 480 ships were packed off by Rothschild owned firm Gillanders and Arbuthnot, who were agents for Opium drugs too .

DELIBERATE famine was introduced and desperate Indians from UP ( Mathura area ) forced to go to Guyana . Some people were channeled off to Malwa ( Agra famine displacement ) where they were used by Jew Rothschild to grow Opium for China.

Your ancestors would be speaking Bhojpuri

The first ship from Calcutta to Georgetown was WHITBY on May 5th 1835.

Venous Leak is an inability to maintain an erection in the presence of sufficient arterial blood flow through the cavernosal arteries of the artery. The defect lies in the drainage of the cavernosal tissue of The penis, which under normal function provides high resistance to venous blood flow from the penis during an erection, thus keeping blood 'trapped' inside the spongy chambers of the penis, to maintain an erection of adequate strength for an adequate length of time

The defect is in the connective tissue of the tunica albuginea surrounding the penile veins, most importantly the Deep Dorsal Vein of the penis.

Penile erection is a neurovascular event subject to psychological and hormonal modulation. Upon sexual stimulation, nerve impulses release neurotransmitters from the cavernous nerve terminals and relaxing factors from the endothelial cells in the penis. Resultant smooth muscle relaxation in the arteries and arterioles supplying the erectile tissue results in a several-fold increase in blood flow

Concomitantly, there is (b) relaxation of the sinusoidal smooth muscle within the paired corporeal bodies, facilitating rapid filling and expansion of the sinusoidal system . As a result, (c) venous plexuses located between the sinusoids and rigid tunic covering the penis are compressed resulting in almost total occlusion of venous outflow.

These events effectively trap the blood within the corpora cavernosa and raise the penis from flaccid to erect position. During full erection, the intracavernous pressure of 100 mm Hg is achieved. Sensory stimulation triggers the bulbocavernosus reflex, causing the ischiocavernosus muscles to forcefully compress the blood-filled corpora cavernosa.

During ejaculation, penile intracavernous pressures reach several hundred mm Hg . During this phase, vascular inflow and outflow temporarily cease. Detumescence results when erectile neurotransmitter release stops, when there is breakdown of second messengers by phosphodiesterases, or due to sympathetic discharge during ejaculation.

PSV means the peak systolic velocity, the speed the blood flows in to your penis. A value greater than 35cm/s is considered normal.

EDV means the end systolic velocity, the value blood flows out of your penis. During an erection the value should be close to 0. Value greater than 5cm/s indicates veno-occlusive dysfunction.

RI (resistance index, which refers to keeping the blood from flowing out during erection) should be 1, value less than 0.75 indicates venous leak.

The penis is innervated by autonomic and somatic nerves. In the pelvis, the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves merge to form the cavernous nerves, which enter the corpora cavernosa, corpus spongiosum and glans penis to regulate the blood flow during erection.

The pudendal nerve, the somatic component, is responsible for penile sensation and the contraction and relaxation of the bulbocavernosus and ischiocavernosus muscles that surround the penis.

Nitric oxide released from nonadrenergic-noncholinergic neurotransmission and the endothelium is the principal neurotransmitter for penile erection.

Within the muscle, nitric oxide activates a guanylyl cyclase that raises intracellular concentrations of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (GMP). Cyclic GMP in turn activates a specific protein kinase, which results in the opening of the potassium channels and hyperpolarization and causes sequestration of intracellular calcium and blocks calcium influx. As a result of this drop in cytosolic calcium, smooth muscle relaxation occurs leading to erection.

On return to the flaccid state, cyclic GMP is hydrolyzed to guanosine monophosphate by phosphodiesterase type 5. Viagra-- Sildenafil, vardenafil and tadalafil are drugs used to treat erection dysfunction and they work by blocking phosphodiesterase enzyme activity— they are only a partial success .

Neurologic disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, stroke, and cerebral trauma often cause erectile dysfunction by decreasing libido or causing inability to initiate the erectile process.

Following sexual stimulation, penile erection occurs through the release of nitric oxide (NO), which causes dilation of the blood vessels of the corpus cavernosum via an accumulation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). PDE5, an enzyme that breaks down cGMP, can be inhibited and thereby the vasodilatory effect of Nitric oxide is enhanced

Nitric oxide has a number of actions that lead to relaxation of blood vessels, regeneration of the endothelium (the inner lining of arteries), and inhibition of platelet clumping which makes the blood thinner..

One of the main physiological causes of impotence, or erectile dysfunction, is inability of the blood vessels in the penis to dilate enough to allow blood flow and engorgement. The most important chemical involved in this process is nitric oxide.

Nitric oxide can act on neurons in the penis causing dilation of the corpus cavernosum. Nitric oxide s released from nerve endings and endothelial cells and stimulates the activity of guanylate cyclase, leading to an increase in cyclic guanosine-3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) and, finally, to cavernous smooth muscle relaxation. Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is widely used in the nervous system

Release of endothelium-derived relaxing factors such as nitric oxide (NO), prostaglandins and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor, as well as vasoconstricting factors such as endothelin, superoxide and thromboxanes play an influential role in the maintenance and regulation of vascular tone and the corresponding peripheral vascular resistance.

Vascular endothelium is more than a simple layer of cellophane com-posed of cells.—a thin layer of cell line covers the interior surface of blood vessels of the entire circulatory system (about 5 000 m2), from the heart to the smallest capillary.

It comprises about 2% of the mass of the human body. The en-dothelium with subendothelium form an interface between circulating blood in the lumen of vessels and the rest of the vessel wall. As a selective barrier between the blood and the surrounding tissues, intact endothelium mechanically separates platelets and their pro-coagulant products from intravascular, subendothelial and tissue coagulation fac-tors, and it also inhibits pro-coagulant proteins

Treatment with oral PDE5 inhibitors is effective for most men with mild to moderate ED. Taken before sexual activity, PDE inhibitors work by enhancing the effects of nitric oxide, relaxing penile smooth muscle during sexual stimulation and allows increased blood flow. While these medications improve the response to sexual stimulation, they do not trigger an automatic erection..

Veno-occlusive dysfunction is a commonly diagnosed cause of impotence.

Surgical procedures to improve erections are performed for 3 reasons: to implant a device that can cause the penis to become erect, to reconstruct arteries and increase penile blood flow, and to occlude veins that allow blood to leak out of the penis and cause ED.

Penile vascular surgery --Surgical removal of the intermediate (deep dorsal vein and its tributaries) venous system of the penis has been advocated by greedy doctors as an effective treatment –but they don’t work

THE BEST PART WAS WHEN THE INDIAN SAILORS GOT STUCK IN BRITAIN THEY GOT FREE NOON SEX FROM BRITISH HOUSE WIVES WHO WANTED BLACK STIFF COCK POUNDING--- THEY WERE FED UP OF SUCKING ON TINY SYPHILITIC PINK COCK FOR HOURS

Chief Engineer was ARM CHAIR GENERAL --he would never come down to the engine room

But after a main engine unit was decarbonised --he would wend his drunken way down into the engie room--puff on his pipe -- and mutter-- IN THE GROOVE --this was a signal for the crew to box back the unit

the indian lascars though the chief engineer said ENGINE CREW ( meaning they did a damn good job )

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